Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores the latest worrying sign of the BBC's flawed interpretation of 'impartiality'
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Here is a joke. A philosopher goes to a policy committee. Got it? Okay, okay, it’s probably a bad joke. It’s also outdated: these days, many philosophers do go to policy committees. The cliché is that a philosopher sits in the academic ivory tower, thinks long and hard about a problem, then writes a theory […]
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The best analogies in poetry and science really crackle, but when do they expand our thinking and when do they constrain it?
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Primer Design’s turnover jumped by 4,800% after supplying tests that were later deemed “unfit for public use”
Intimations of mortality are not ours alone
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The Sombrero Galaxy returns in a revamped Hubble image
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Stephen S. Hall on writing his new book Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
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Economics is largely a worthless discipline. Its axioms, like humans being rational utility maximizers, are simply wrong and everything built on top of them is thus flawed. It reminds me of pre-Copernican astronomy, which was based on the idea that the sun and planets revolved around the Earth.
Democracy campaigners are calling for urgent reform of UK electoral laws, as Nigel Farage's party launches a fundraising drive among voters living in overseas tax havens
I posted this on my (private) Facebook page a few weeks back, just to vent. Since it resonated with quite a few people, I am reposting it here. I thought it was a platitude, but given the sea of self-congratulatory discourse about Europe (here’s an example for those who read Italian, but there are plenty) […]
This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th April 2025 Those of us who try to defend wildlife are horribly familiar with bad laws. But we’ve never seen anything like this. The government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill is the worst assault on […]
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April 28th, 2025: Hey, did you know I wrote a cho Soon after the US President announced – Liberation Day tariffs – I wrote this blog post – US government is pinning its tariff hopes on some unlikely to be realised assumptions (April 7, 2025) – to help readers understand what logic there was, if any, in the decision by the American government to impose wide-ranging…
“Trump’s blue suit at Pope’s funeral draws attention… President Trump’s choice stood out in a sea of world leaders and famous faces who were dressed in customary black.” — New York Times, 4/26/25 - - - 1. Shows up at a solemn global event in a blinding shade of blue, disrupting everything like an unwanted pop-up ad in human form. 2. Demands instant gratification. 3. Was propped up by their father and remains disturbingly reliant on him, especially when facing imminent, though basic and predictable, consequences. 4. Requires a tiny, exhausted task force to minimize the consequences of their own self-inflicted disasters, while pretending they themselves are “winning.” 5. Has a truly troubling inability to follow simple, life-saving directions, e.g., chewing gum or inciting insurrections. 6. Involved in the exploitation of marginalized workers. 7. Insists they should be rewarded for relatively simple tasks like chewing gum or identifying an elephant. America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal, it remains a far cry from developing a capacity to protect what’s left of democracy in the United States. With the administration in its fourth month, the magnitude of the damage underway is virtually impossible for any individual to fully grasp. But none of us need a complete picture to understand that the federal government is now in the clutches of massively cruel and antidemocratic forces that have no intention of letting go. Donald Trump’s second presidential term has already given vast power to the most virulent aspects of the nation’s far-right political culture. Its flagrant goals... Read more Interim Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has told colleagues that he assumed that Channel 7 were asking for the price of easter eggs, not everyday eggs, at last night’s leader’s debate. Mr Dutton guessed that eggs were $4, less than half... Read More ›
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 27, 2025 by Tony Wikrent
Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ ‘We’re Not Stopping’: Trump Border Czar Vows to Ignore Judges [The Daily Beast, via MSN 03-18-2025] The government’s adding a makeup studio to the war room, the antitax movement shows some cracks, and more from The Lever this week.
Our deep dive into Doctor Who S02E03: "The Well" includes the biggest easter egg of all, dominating the entire episode from start to finish.
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